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You would work on a joint Intelligence Community (IC) and Department of Defense (DoD) crown jewel program providing highly specialized space/counter-space engineering, scientific, and analytical services from Denver/Auora, Colorado. We support the Nation’s leading-edge IC and DoD space programs and offer compelling, deep-technical work that has direct influence and impact on program development and operations. Our team has Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) across a variety of disciplines, including physics, math, RF, optics, space acquisition and operations, and intelligence collection and analysis.\nThis IPT Lead will work in a collaborative team-focused environment of U.S. Government civilians and contractors solving applied technical problems and developing usable solutions for multiple space-related capabilities and threats. The ideal candidate will:\nDemonstrate the ability to provide technical leadership to teams of SMEs to include providing technical guidance and oversight, mentoring team members, integrating and delivering timely, quality products\nHave excellent written and oral communication skills\nHave experience briefing and interacting with senior government customers\nHave experience creating, writing, integrating, and presenting technical briefings and documents\nHave the ability to decompose problems into analytical tasks\nHave experience with program planning, task decomposition, and resource assignments\nThis position qualifies for enhanced benefits.\nDuties and responsibilities include:\nLead a team of multi-disciplined engineers and analysts in program-specific analyses, foreign threat capabilities and development and research\nTasking, timelines, status, and deliverables for the IPT across the analysis, threat and phenomenology functions\nMaintain communications and schedule meetings with end-customer offices, coordinate information needs, product delivery timelines and status\nProvide status of IPT projects, tasks, and deliverables to program and immediate government customer management at periodic reviews\nIdentify, remove, and/or escalate blockers to team tasks or deliverables\nParticipating in intelligence or cross-team product production meetings as required\nAchieving detailed understanding of multiple satellite systems, designs, operations and classifications\nIdentifying gapsand prioritizing recommendations to achieve program protectionobjectives\nAuthor, review, and coordinate documents to facilitate Government decisionmaking;\nRepeated use and application of technical standards, principles, theories, concepts andtechniques\nDevelop and maintain in-depth knowledge of U.S. national security space capabilities, foreign space capabilities, and counter-space threats;\nParticipate and represent the customer in various Government and contractor meetings and attend contractor programmatic and technical reviews (e.g. PMR, PDR, CDR, etc.) to provide technical recommendations and risk assessments;\nFrequently interacting with program managers, SETAs, FFRDCs and external stakeholders;\nDeveloping productive relationships with the Program Office, Prime, and Subcontract counterparts, functional IC or DoD counterparts, and other SMEs;\nTYPICAL EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: Bachelors and fourteen (14) years or more experience; Masters and twelve (12) years or more experience; PhD or JD and nine (9) years or more experience\nIn-depth technical expertise in at least two of the following areas: orbital analysis, satellite communication systems, space surveillance technologies, radar systems, and/or optical systems \nExperience with satellite acquisition, development, and operations \nExcellent analytical and problem-solving skills \nExperience interacting with the intel community to include reading and applying intel assessments and coordinating with intel community experts \nExperience using STK or similar satellite mission analysis software \nActive Secret Clearance. 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